FLAMING PIE
| Paul McCartney
FLAMING PIE
Flaming Pie is the 11th solo studio album by Paul McCartney, first released in 1997. His first studio album in over four years, it was mostly recorded after McCartney's involvement in the highly successful Beatles Anthology project. The album was recorded in several locations over two years, 1995 and 1997, featuring two songs dating from 1992. The album featured several of McCartney's family members and friends, most notably McCartney's son, James McCartney. In Flaming Pie's liner notes, McCartney said: "[The Beatles Anthology] reminded me of The Beatles' standards and the standards that we reached with the songs. So in a way it was a refresher course that set the framework for this album. - WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Flaming Pie finds McCartney grappling with history, both personal and public, in intriguing ways.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
it's got everything McCartney has to give, and that adds up to a total exponentially greater than the sum of its parts.
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Classic Rock Review
Flaming Pie, McCartney’s tenth solo album, was a success in achieving this goal as it features an array of styles which pinpoint musical moments with and without the Beatles.
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altrockchick
It was nice to hear that he still retained some of the talent and creative spark that brought him acclaim in the first place.
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sputnik music
Flaming Pie touches emotional chords that not even primal therapy-era John Lennon could manage, and for that reason alone, it remains one of the very best solo Beatles albums
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The Music Box
McCartney held nothing back in pulling Flaming Pie together.
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People
McCartney has the guts to confront, and rock out to, the problems of adulthood.
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Adrian Denning
Trawling through The Beatles archives evidently had an effect on Paul and ‘Flaming Pie’ is the result.
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Don Ignacio
Some call it the best release of his career. Others call it one of his worst.
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Travel 101
It's a good album, great by anyone else's standards. It's just not superb like so contributions from Paul McCartney's past.
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Swap a CD
Just when everyone has given up on Sir Paul's ever releasing another decent pop song, he turns around and surprises us all with his best album since the mid-'70s.
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Alan's Album Archives
'Flaming Pie' is perhaps the most extreme album of Paul's career, caught between great days, beautiful nights and awful nightmares that should never been allowed anywhere near a released record.
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The New York Times
nostalgia is a weapon that only makes the lure of the middle of the road stronger.
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plugged in
Flaming Pie. Positive messages far outweigh its few negative hiccups.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
he eerily recreates the early 70s sound of Wings.
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Drop D Magazine
although Flaming Pie is the best effort from him since God-knows-when, that's still not saying very much.
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Ultimate Guitar.com
The simplification, purification and stripping-away of inessentials displayed on the best tracks here, really make this a mostly enjoyable album.
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The Baltimore Sun
McCartney shows some of the whimsy and melody that characterized the Beatles.
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Cafe on the Left Bank
Fans must-have with old McCartney still moving you to tears (in a good sence, that is).
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